This is an analysis of the poem Sick Leave that begins with:
When I’m asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,—
They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101111 11010101001 1011010001 1011110101 10011100111 1100111111 11110111010 01001111001 01010101100 1101010101 1100010001 1111010001 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Sick Leave;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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